A moving year ended well for us. A new wave of refugees, the big flood in Thailand and the economic crisis put us to the test. Despite a decline in income of about 18,9% we were able to invest 710.000 Euro in our projects for burmese refugee children.
The purchase of one bar Zotter "Schokolade macht satt" chocolate gives a healthy meal to a refugee child from Burma from our "Yummy! Meals for Schools" project.
We are happy about the cooperation between Help without Frontiers Austria and the Chocolate manufactory Zotter from Bergl, Austria. Since the 1st of January 2012 you can purchase the chocolate, with the flavour Mango-Coconut with Sesame, at Zotter which is sold under the name "Schokolade macht satt" (Chocolate fills bellies).
We would like this request from our „Rays of Youth“ team to accompany us during the Christmas period and to become our motto of work in the New Year.
The song and video were written, composed, filmed, cut and produced by the Rays of Youth team, after only a few months of music lessons. The music lessons and the purchase of instruments were only possible thanks to the invaluable support of Weingut Lageder, the Southtyrolean Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Union of Music Schools of South Tyrol.
We are just entering our 10th year since the founding of the organization on the 12th of September 2002. In those years – belive it or not – many thousand donors supported our projects. Thanks to this help we grow big; therefore we were able to help many many people effectively and sustainably.
This report about the civil war in Burma, the longest in history, was shown not too long ago in Al Jazeera's series "101 East". The report was filmed in Mae Sot and surroundings and gives an overview on the actual situation along the Thai-Burma border, the ongoing war on burmese side and the difficult situation of refugees on thai side.
Our long-time project partners Dr. Cynthia Maung and Tu Boe give interviews and pictures of Mae Tao Clinic are shown. You can watch the 25 minute report here.
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